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avisaven

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About avisaven

doing various things

https://github.com/acceptable-security

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    Comment #25905045

    I actually used this as inspiration for a little self-challenge to write a programming language in 24hrs not too long ago [1]. I didn't get quite as far as I'd've liked to, but non…

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    Comment #22166070

    A similar but more structured (though perhaps Hound supports a similar feature set) code searching tool is OpenGrok [1]. It's a bit more setup as it uses Apache Tomcat, but once it…

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    Comment #21937323

    If you find WiFi-based attacks on devices to be interesting, you may be interested in the following research from Google Project Zero on attacking the iPhone’s WiFi stack (and link…

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    Comment #19120580

    If you want to play with RISC-V hardware right now, I highly recommend taking a look at the Sipeed MAIX [1]. It has a bunch of neat features along with a dedicated RISC-V processor…

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    Comment #19102114

    I had been looking for this exact project, but I couldn't remember its name for the longest time. But I remember that home page exactly. Doing a bit of seraching it turns out volt.…

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    Comment #19072009

    What a coincidense, for my high school senior project in 2017 I built an operating system as well [1] (which I still work on to this day). For anyone who is put off by the difficul…

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    Comment #15678098

    That's odd, I'm running on a Macbook with an Intel Iris Pro integrated graphics card and I'm getting 60FPS. Using Chromium 62.0.3202.89 (Developer Build) (64-bit) though. https://i…

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    Comment #14780066

    I'd love to talk about cryptocurrencies/software engineering/cybersecurity if you're interested. avi . saven (at) gmail

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    Comment #14522540

    This is a real shame. I had used Skype for Linux as part of a research project creating a Tor Bridge that used QR codes in a video stream to send the Tor data. It had a pretty dece…

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    Comment #14475010

    Out of curiosity, why would something like this be closed off to people < 18 y/o?

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    Comment #14472409

    I've recently been playing around with HackerOne. It's a great way to both benefit society (by finding, reporting, and eliminating security flaws in software that people rely on) a…

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    Comment #14425375

    A very common methodology is using a technique called fuzzing. There exists many fuzzers which have produced great success finding a plethora of both non-exploitable and exploitabl…

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    Comment #14243602

    I thought of the same thing. I have a feeling it's not the same organization however because when Cicada 3301 refers to themselves, they use 3301 rather than Cicada.